Caspian Journal of Scientometric

Background and aim: Scientific journals can be considered as a symbol of scientific life of every science such as Human Sciences. According to the current state of the country, paying special attention to economic issues, especially the resistive economy among journals related to human sciences indicates direct or indirect interest in the subject. The aim of this study was to assess the publication of articles regarding resistive economy among Human Sciences Journals.

Material and methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on all Persian Human Sciences Journals using scientometric method during two years (2012-2013). Titles, abstracts and keywords of all articles were reviewed in terms of words such as economy, Islamic economy and resistive economy. The data were collected by means of a tailor-made data collection sheet and were analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi-square test (χ2).

Findings: The outcome extracted from 21353 articles of 486 journals published by Universities, faculties and research institutes (during 2012-2013) showed that the mentioned words were used in 703 scientific works (in 3.29% of articles). Twenty nine (nearly 0.1%) and 10 (0.04%) scientific works were related to Islamic economy and resistive economy, respectively. Journals of economics had the highest percent of related articles regarding economy and Islamic economy, and journals of politics had the highest percentage of articles about resistive economy.

Conclusion: According to the importance of scientific explanation of resistive economy in the current state of our country, the more role-playing of human sciences specialists, especially "economics' scientists" is necessary. Thus paying attention to encourage the lecturers and students to study and research on policies and purposes of resistive economy is strongly recommended.